Recent content by sedrosken

Yeah, those keys tend to require phone activation. I wouldn't use them on a machine we sell for liability reasons. On my own stuff I just install 2021 and then massgrave it.

See, I used to scale DPI lower so I could fit more on a screen, but this was like… fitting 1920x1200 into a 19 inch 1440x900 screen, nothing crazy. This was of course before my vision went completely to shit. mubs, Windows supports setting an arbirtrary percentage for scaling now, and has at...

I did another playthrough of Morrowind recently with Tamriel Rebuilt, which among (most of) the Morrowind mainland it implements (the base game takes place on the island of Vvardenfell, a lore-relevant Tribunal Temple preserve only recently opened to colonists) it also implements vanilla-esque...

I probably worded it poorly, but I was just saying I think I'm done entirely. I was so shocked at being pursued that I let it happen, and that was a mistake; I think in the future my answer will be 'no'. Maybe I'll word it more nicely, maybe I'll just keep it the one word, simple and clear. Not...

Oh, that's already happening. Miami's elections this year are cancelled, they're pushing them to next year is the official line. If you think this stops in Florida, you're delusional.

I have to scale 1080p to 130ish to keep it readable at 14", and I've found a lot of my clients get mileage out of the scaling due to similarly (though usually to a worse degree) poor vision.

So birthright citizenship basically isn’t a thing anymore, and now I’m just waiting until they turn that around to start making dissidents who were born here non-citizens and therefore fair game to deport to an El Salvadoran gulag.

Say what you will about Jellyfin, it's worked on everything I've tried and I refuse to pay for Plex Pass.

I wouldn't. We're far past the era in which it makes sense to pay extra for an antivirus. Windows Defender is 100% just fine. Again -- don't. I'd heard Nord shares logs with anyone who asks, but that doesn't appear to be the case -- however, apparently they DO make it very difficult to cancel...

I'm also in favor of using an older copy of Office if you've got it around. Basic computer competence will keep you from getting got by Word macro viruses or whatever, the Office 07 compatibility pack will work as far back as Office 97, and it's very unlikely you'll regularly find files that get...

We've been deploying Cloud Gateway Ultras with U7+ APs for our small to mid-size networks. Ubiquiti has rapidly become one of my favorite vendors. Personally at home I'm still running that little chinese N100 box with the quad LAN running pfSense with a Netgear WAX214. I keep intending to...

Both of my past relationships, the one when I was a teenager and the more recent one that ended rather abruptly, were LDRs. I'm not willing to do anything long-distance ever again -- if it starts local and one of us has to move away, well. It probably wasn't going to work out anyway. And I'm...

In my professional capacity, my recommendation is to replace it with something that's at least still supported. Ideally under warranty, too. Man to man, though, you all know I still regularly make use of XP-era equipment and Windows XP itself online. I do hobbyist level stuff with Windows 9x...

Yeah, Wayland still isn't quite ready for production use with streaming and remote desktop solutions current seeming complete lack of support for it, but still these distros go shoving it down everyone's throat anyway. X11 will likely never completely die. What exactly are the *BSDs using, I'm...

It's not as robust as having ad-blocking on the device itself, but it works wonders for devices where that's not doable.